Slavery, Titties

Earlier today (ooooh, let's go back in time!! tv screen waving, waving...) I shook my head at Harry Reid invoking The "S" Word. To which, of course, everyone has been going bananas all day long.

But a bit of a line that seems to have snuck through without anybody really noticing is the very end:

slow down, it's too early, let's wait, things aren't bad enough."

With this bit of a Freudian slip, Reid seems to be letting us in on how domestic policy is actually handled in America, ie a doctrine I brought up over a year ago called "Tits Up":

We never seem to do anything as a country these days until shit goes absolutely tits up. We're patting ourselves on the back for getting rid of Bush, but we are, as usual, about four years behind. And we STILL almost elected his successor, were it not for the financial crisis....which, what do you know, nobody bothered to do anything about until shit went tits up. TITS UP - this seems to be our modus operandi now; if you want any change at all, you hafta wait for complete disaster.  

 After the shouting dies down over the slavery bit, maybe someone can step in and ask WHY it's "too early," WHY "things aren't bad enough." Like levees breaking and bridges collapsing and icecaps drowning cute polar bears, are we gonna wait till we're all dying from mad squirrel disease, since that seems to be our REAL policy?